Bitter Pills: Medicines and the Third World PoorThis report on the relationship between health problems and the sale of medicines in the Third World concludes with a call for greater international control of pharmaceutical sales and promotion. |
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Urbanisation and Disease | 7 |
Essential Drugs for Primary Health Care | 15 |
Producers Market | 27 |
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